Why Go With SIM?

It’s exciting to see God calling so many gifted men and women from around the world to serve in mission.

What a privilege it is to be able to partner with them!

What We Bring

We offer our missionaries a wide range of quality services and benefits:

Experience

we have over 120 years of proven experience in cross-culture mission.

Access

explore hundreds of mission opportunities in over 70 countries, including restricted access countries; we specialise in health, education, children and youth ministries, aid and development.

Network

internationally, SIM partners with over 1800 missionaries around the world; we have hundreds of partners and projects in our network.

Creativity

explore new, pioneering, creative mission-ministries; we love innovative approaches to mission like ‘business as mission’ and mission through sports, drama and music.

Prayer

we pray for our missionaries by name and our home staff and hundreds of prayer partners devote special time every weekday to intercessory prayer.

Resource and Training

our induction program for new missionaries includes mission training and orientation, resources and promotion to help them raise their financial and prayer support.

Health Cover

as members of SIM, our missionaries are covered under our health insurance plan and receive discounts and benefits on a wide range of health services – if there’s a medical emergency or serious injury, we step in to help.

Financial Security

SIM tailors a budget for each missionary that includes set up costs, living expenses, ministry expenses, health cover, retirement savings and emergency contingencies; we monitor and review support plans on an annual basis to take into consideration changes in circumstances and exchange rates.

Pastoral Care

we assign a mission mobiliser to each missionary who provides pastoral care and support throughout the whole missionary journey; our qualified Pastoral Care Coordinator and missionary Ministry Team are also on hand to support our missionaries.

Biblical-based Counselling

SIM offers our missionaries biblically-based, professional, confidential counselling services by qualified counsellors should they need extra help working through a challenge, or resolving a conflict.

Crisis Management

each SIM field office has contingency plans in place to help our missionaries stay safe, or be evacuated to another location or country in the event of civil unrest, medical emergency or other natural disaster.

What Makes Us Different

We prioritise Unreached People Groups in the 10-40 window to share the Gospel where Christ is least known. Right now we have strong ministries amongst unreached peoples in Burkina Faso, Niger, China, Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Peru and Nigeria, just to name a few! SIM Australia missionaries primarily serve in Africa and Asia, but we also have missionaries serving in South America and the Middle East.

We love multicultural teams and send missionaries of any nationality. SIM doesn’t just send missionaries from traditional Western sending-countries – we encourage churches in any country to send missionaries to serve in cross-cultural mission. Our missionaries, staff and partners represent a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and this enriches our ministry. We’ve sent Peruvians to India, Indians to Bolivia, and Papuans to South Asia.

We value local partnerships – we partner closely with local churches, Bible colleges, schools and hospitals. The role of the missionary is to partner with local believers to carry out ministry side by side. We send missionaries to serve at the invitation of local Christian partners to offer the expertise and training they need to increase their effectiveness.

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